Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space

NSFW/SFW is a social construct, pals, and not one without pitfalls and power dynamics.

Which identities and their associated traits and behaviours are 'Wholesome, Fine, Self-Expression"

And which are "That's Sexual, Keep It Hidden"

..Is politically loaded, culturally rooted, constantly shifting, and highly weaponizable.

Read up on enough queer history and you'll get a looong timeline of these shifting boundaries and identities

And how people smack each other with 'em to great effect

Cuz:
- Longbat is long, and the cushion's for a standard chair with shorter length, so I had to pad out the back seperately
- Now the rim covers are Green, there's nowhere near enough Purple in the ~aesthetic~. (the standard cushion is in Melancholic Institutional Grey, too)
- My chair didn't come with sideguards, so clothes get dirtied by tires too much. Can do sideguards mounted on the cushion with sufficient interfacing & structure.

I've been sewing a cushion cover for my wheelchair lately, and am trying to remember to like, take photos semi-regularly.

News soon spread through China that Guan Yu takes criticism of his air guitar routine rather poorly

Hammond the Hamster is the most subversive Overwatch character cuz he steals and recycles the tools of an oppressive institution to free himself from it

send toot

the "Average spearman solos an entire army every night" factoid is inaccurate. Charging Georg is a statistical outlier who should not be counted

Extremely Moira Voice: "The true war is between trying not to cross your legs due to back pain, and finding it extremely calming because it's a pressure-stim."

I made a curry on Tuesday with PA's help!

It was the first time I cooked a like, big recipe meal in.. Uh.. Literally-years. And I had to do the last bit solo because time constraints, but I still managed it, and it was really good!

(Not something I could do on a weekly basis energywise, but something she could, I think)

(recipe: https://www.bbc.com/food/recipes/saag_aloo_with_roasted_95304 )

Ug

Just-Eat have moved from "you can opt-out of single-use plastics" to "don't you even ask for them!!"

Just say 🖕 to ablism, folks

Food acquisition has been confirmed

Now to spend a quiet evening of historical fantasy shenanigans in TW: Three Kingdoms

I am eager to poke deeper into the Crusader Kings 2-y character bits

"Oh, your best general doesn't like this other general he has to work alongside, and that grated on him so much he eventually defected! But your nephew is his best buddy, so that's a whole thing now"

Giving me emergent character drama to go alongside the OTT battles

CA are cunning devs indeed

Recommend me some good speculative fiction books, peeps

"Okay, I played *tonnes* of Total Warhammer 2 while I was depressed. Definitely time to play something else now."

*Total War: Three Kingdoms looks really good*

"Well, on the other hand.."

The worldbuilding is fantastic, the cultures don't feel like erzatz proxies. It manages to deal with extremely heavy themes with real world impact without them feeling out of place, because they're each integral to the setting and its own social/political dynamics as well.

So there's no jarring whiplash when you go from characters discussing theology, urban gentrification or free-market capitalism to a necromancer riding in on a zombie dragon. (because, well, how do you think he afforded it in the first place?)